-Cohen beginning to recognize and learn christmas music. His favorites to sing were hark the herald angels sings and jingle bells. as the weeks progressed, we went from only repeating “fa, the angels sing” over and over again to getting all the way through “god and sinners reconciled.” I also loved to hear him recognize songs on the radio, “hey!” he would say with surprise, ‘that’s frosty!”

-Sophie recognizing santa everywhere and saying “tanta! tanta!”

-Driving around to look at Christmas lights together as a family. Cohen would sing the aforementioned songs and sophie would go, “ooooo! tanta! tanta!”

-jacob and I shopping at toys are us with our coffee and hot chocolate, playing santa.

-waking up early on Christmas eve morning with Cohen and being so excited that we both danced are way into the tv stand and cohen cried for a couple minutes but it didn’t matter because christmas was about to begin!

-watching sophie play under a table while all the adults talked to each other at the christmas eve party at uncle joe’s house

-watching cohen and sophie play and open presents in the middle of a big circle of family in their christmas pajamas